It is hard to imagine a better moment for trying to understand the French, so recently the enemies of American foreign policy and still the butt of American jokes. With perfect timing, Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow, a Canadian couple, have produced “Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong” (Sourcebooks, 351 pages, $16.95). One imagines a corresponding book titled “But 60 Million Americans Want to Spit in Their Eye.” Read more »